Agile Coach

Quick Facts

• Role: Agile Coach

Description

The Agile Coach will coach squads to increase Agile maturity and enhance delivery outcomes. You will teach Agile ceremonies and practices that are outcome-focused and aligned with business objectives, using performance and maturity data to find improvement opportunities and track progress. The role also includes maturity assessments, squad-level assurance against technology standards, and support for continuous improvement and innovation events.

Responsibilities

• Coach squads to successfully run Agile ceremonies (daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, amigos, quarterly planning, sprint planning, retrospectives)

• Support squads in working within Agile processes, principles, tooling, and frameworks

• Deliver targeted learning based on feedback from leadership and Lead Agile Coaches

• Provide squads with reporting/data insights to continually improve ways of working

• Gather squad data for business partnering sessions with leadership

• Support grassroots improvement and introduction of new ways of working aligned to domain plans

• Provide squad-level assurance for alignment to technology standards and principles; identify skill/capability gaps

• Conduct Agile maturity assessments at the squad level

• Contribute to the Agile CoP: share insights and run continuous improvement-focused sessions

• Share industry best practices to strengthen Agile capability

• Induct new members into “Agile at Kingfisher”

• Provide team building and performance coaching to improve culture and communication

• Support targeted ideation, improvement, and innovation events using data/insight to identify opportunities and help implement improvements

Requirements

• Proven experience of Scrum and Agile practices

• Agile coach experience in a complex and large Agile organization

• Proven ability to drive change and take ownership of delivery

• Effective communication skills

• Strong influencing and stakeholder management skills

• Ability to work under pressure and prioritize workload

• Recognized Agile practice qualification

• Excellent command of English (written and spoken)

Benefits

• Private medical healthcare (including dental care)

• Sports card (Fit&More package)

• Employer-paid life insurance

• 30-minute lunch break included in the 8-hour working day

• Highly professional and stimulating work environment

• Training & Buddy programme

• Wellbeing programme

• Co-financing of monthly public transport tickets in Kraków

• Office-based comfort with option for home office

• Language courses, accounting courses, access to LinkedIn Learning, and potential co-financing of studies/certification

• Employee referral programme